As the film of the week I select Jia Zhangke’s feature directorial debut “Pickpocket”, out of the simple reason that it can be currently seen in its restored glory on Mubi. The film, originally shot on 16mm, stars Wang Hongwei as an outcast con-artist Xiao Wu who is equally estranged from the society and his partners in crime, and whose name serves as the film’s original title.
As it is going to be the case in Zhangke’s later body of work, the milieu the film is set up in in his hometown, it is spoken in the local Mandarine dialect, and the plot is heavily charged with symbolism. Little poisonous arrows are flying towards the direction of the alleged socialist society in which money talks, prostitution blooms, and in which the police turns a blind eye to corruption and middle-scale crime, noticing and punishing petty criminals only.
As it is going to be the case in Zhangke’s later body of work, the milieu the film is set up in in his hometown, it is spoken in the local Mandarine dialect, and the plot is heavily charged with symbolism. Little poisonous arrows are flying towards the direction of the alleged socialist society in which money talks, prostitution blooms, and in which the police turns a blind eye to corruption and middle-scale crime, noticing and punishing petty criminals only.
- 9/5/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… but not in the world of corporate copyright. New Chinese fantasy drama Douluo Continent came under fire after its premiere last week when viewers noticed that some shots in the drama’s magical opening credits, created by third party company Visual Impact Digital Production, looked quite similar to shots in the magical opening credits for the His Dark Materials TV show…
You can watch the Douluo Continent credit sequence here:
And here’s the opening credits for the first season of His Dark Materials, designed by Clarissa Donlevy at Elastic…
As you may notice, the first four shots of each intro appear, at least to this pedestrian eye, to be identical. Viewers also noticed that the credit sequence, um, borrowed some CG animation of a character named Jhin from the League of Legends computer game.
Visual Impact Digital Production issued an apology via...
You can watch the Douluo Continent credit sequence here:
And here’s the opening credits for the first season of His Dark Materials, designed by Clarissa Donlevy at Elastic…
As you may notice, the first four shots of each intro appear, at least to this pedestrian eye, to be identical. Viewers also noticed that the credit sequence, um, borrowed some CG animation of a character named Jhin from the League of Legends computer game.
Visual Impact Digital Production issued an apology via...
- 2/12/2021
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Dariush Mehrjui's The Cow is exclusively showing January 8 – February 6, 2020 in Mubi's Rediscovered series.The silhouette of a four-legged creature emerges over an indistinct horizon. As it moves, it splits apart and merges together a few more times, revealing itself to be a man and his cow. This sequence, presented in a series of black-and-white negative images, comes at the start of Dariush Mehrjui’s pre-Iranian Revolution landmark The Cow—the story of a man whose beloved beast dies suddenly, and who subsequently goes insane, imagining himself to have become a cow. (And not just any cow—his cow.) An adaptation of “Gav,” by writer and playwright Gholam-Hossein Sa’edi, it’s a film of unstable, amorphous identity, for which that suggestive overture soon becomes emblematic. But given its ever-shifting borders, this portentous, almost phantasmic image also carries a different,...
- 1/3/2020
- MUBI
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